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Jan 19, 2012

Clearstream and Strate explore collateral management cooperation for South Africa

The two companies have entered into exclusive negotiations to explore the development of the new service for South Africa Strate clients would benefit from a more efficient use of their domestic collateral South Africa would be the third market, after Brazil and Australia, to use the Liquidity Hub GO outsourcing service from ...

Nov 21, 2011

Citi Establishes Direct Custody and Clearing Services in South Africa

New Offering Expands Citi's Proprietary DCC Network to 60 Markets globally and 34 markets across EMEA JOHANNESBURG, LONDON- Citigroup today announced that its Global Transaction Services business has begun to provide Direct Custody and Clearing (DCC) services to its clients in South Africa. This new offering expands Citi's proprietary DCC network ...

Oct 24, 2011

Link Investor Services joins Strate’s CSD Participant elite

Link Investor Services (Pty) Ltd has been approved as a South African Central Securities Depository (CSD) Participant for Equities as of 1 November 2011 by the Controlling Body of Strate and the Financial Services Board. Link is the first new CSD Participant to enter the South African Equities Market in over ten years. The role of a CSD ...

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Since its inception over ten years ago, Strate Ltd is proud to be the licensed Central Securities Depository (CSD) for the electronic settlement of financial instruments in South Africa.

Strate's core purpose is to mitigate risk, bring efficiencies to the South African financial markets and improve its profile as an investment destination. Strate is aligned to international best practices and continually strives to ensure operational excellence and provide enhancements for the good of the Southern African financial markets.

Strate handles the settlement of a number of securities including equities and bonds for the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) as well as a range of derivative products such as warrants, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), retail notes and tracker funds. It has now added the settlement of money market securities to its portfolio of services. It provides services to Issuers for their investors in terms of the Companies Act and Securities Services Act (SSA), 2004.